Category: Politics

Her name is Mistral Dawn, and she's an author with a new release this week. She's got a lot of romance in her back list, but this book is satire. Pure satire. You can find out more about her at her website: http://mistralkdawn.blogspot.com If someone asked you to explain what's going on in the world... Continue Reading →

Censorship is how it all ends. Google Play, Apple, and Amazon have all made moves toward censoring Erotica and any sexual content on their stores. I'm not going to argue that they haven't that right. It's their store, and, clearly, they've made a business call that sex doesn't sell anymore. This doesn't effect my books... Continue Reading →

Writing for the last two weeks has been like pulling teeth. Today, I think I figured out why. Because I write scifi, writing requires a certain hopefulness on my part, a belief in a far future that could have colonization of planets and technology beyond our wildest dreams. I have to be able to... Continue Reading →

Web piracy. You know, we usually blame the pirates for the whole problem, but, as in any capitalist system, the thieves are merely filing the void. The real problem is that there is a market for free books that weren't paid for. As readers who download without paying for a book, aka. Stealing, it's important... Continue Reading →

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."- Asimov Now, the question constantly being asked in... Continue Reading →

Recently, a very self-important fan of something resembling chauvinism wrote an open letter to Rey from Star Wars. I link to it only because it's courtesy to include the opening narcissism of the (God, I hope) not so average fan of scifi. I very seldom do this, but I'm the mother of a twelve year... Continue Reading →

This week, I have received an education. The opponents of SOPA and PIPA who managed to defeat the bills like to state that the internet will be broken by censorship if the bills pass. Unfortunately, the internet is already broken by theft. My experience is so common as to be laughable. To their credit, Playster... Continue Reading →